What was the first computer you owned?

Zardon · Nov 10, 2002, 07:42 PM

Well ill go back a little here, my first computer was a C-64, I suppose im not one of the oldest on the board but maybe alot of you younger members dont remember it.

I was only .... erm.... around 12 then I think, and I loved it. I think I actually still have it somewhere in the attic come to think of it with a disk drive. anyone remember the tape drives with the 25 minutes flashing loading screens?

How things have came on, since my Atari ST then amiga, several macs and my old 386s, 486s (I still remember mechwarrior on my 486 DX 100, and man I thought I was king dick back then) "no one in the world could have a pc this powerful!.

Then the first 3dfx card I had when I got tombraider, and being totally blown away.

so what about you guys, any good memories?

Kelsenellenelvian · Nov 10, 2002, 07:47 PM

I owned a T- I something or other hell I even had to use my own tv cuase it was more like an expanded game system that could word procces and print and do math on..

~~David~~ · Nov 10, 2002, 07:48 PM

Packard Bell 405 CD had a intel 75mhz in it and 8 meg of ram wow what a pos that was in 1995 cost me $2700 for the thing!

Kelsenellenelvian · Nov 10, 2002, 07:49 PM

Holy sh1t what a system we could put together with $2700 now huh.

Zardon · Nov 10, 2002, 07:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kelsenellenelvian
I owned a T- I something or other hell I even had to use my own tv cuase it was more like an expanded game system that could word procces and print and do math on..

a T1? what was that, maybe an american model or something? 386?

WyreTheWolf · Nov 10, 2002, 07:49 PM

I believe the first computer I ever owned was an atari system. ewwwwww, it is a toss up between that.. .and an old ACE 1000 (that is an apple clone)

Too old ... was too long ago to remember. :P

Kelsenellenelvian · Nov 10, 2002, 07:50 PM

It was less than a 386 it was in c-64 era or earlier.

MMMM 1980-1981 If I remember right.

Zardon · Nov 10, 2002, 07:51 PM

damn I remember my rich friend had an atari console. with pong and some other plane game. and when you left one side of the screen you appeared on the other side. boy those where the good ole days ! lol

Kelsenellenelvian · Nov 10, 2002, 07:52 PM

Remember 12inch floppies???

fornicatarachnid · Nov 10, 2002, 07:53 PM

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Originally posted by Zardon

Then the first 3dfx card I had when I got tombraider, and being totally blown away.

so what about you guys, any good memories?

The first 3dfx card i got was a Diamond Monster, i was having my first system built, based around a P233. I just had to have that graphics card cos everybody was raging about it at the time. I have to agree with you Zardon about Tombraider, the first time i saw it i was gobsmacked too.

DALAMAR · Nov 10, 2002, 07:53 PM

Mine was a no name 386 that ran @ 25MHz (it had a Turbo button which brought it up to 33MHz). It came with a 125MB HD, 4MB RAM and a Trident video card with 1MB. I bought myself a Hayes Accura 14/4 External Modem. I ran this system with Windows 95 (and surfed the net) all the way til IE 4 became Final...which my system would no longer handle (although the last BETA of IE 4 worked). I also had a Creative SoundBlaster card in it...remember those??..the ones with the MANUAL volume switches on them (on the BACK of your PC).

Kelsenellenelvian · Nov 10, 2002, 07:58 PM

I still have an old c-64 color monitor that I use for my nintendos.

Renegade[CSR] · Nov 10, 2002, 08:01 PM

486 computer when I was 12, with like I dont know how much ram, maybe 32 mb

In any case, my fondest memory was playing microsoft golf, and some messed up car racing game. It was a fun system, till I realized that there were faster ones

fornicatarachnid · Nov 10, 2002, 08:01 PM

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Originally posted by Kelsenellenelvian
I still have an old c-64 color monitor that I use for my nintendos.

Ive still got an Amiga 1200 with a huge box full of games. Anybody want to buy it ?

Zardon · Nov 10, 2002, 08:01 PM

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Originally posted by fornicatarachnid
I have to agree with you Zardon about Tombraider, the first time i saw it i was gobsmacked too.

you remember the voodoo 2s in SLI mode? I spent MEGA money on that and drilled a hole in the case to keep it all cool... that was serious in those days, running games at 640x480 or 800x600 if you were lucky !

still alot of good memories.

fornicatarachnid · Nov 10, 2002, 08:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zardon
you remember the voodoo 2s in SLI mode? I spent MEGA money on that and drilled a hole in the case to keep it all cool... that was serious in those days, running games at 640x480 or 800x600 if you where lucky !

still alot of good memories.

I think that Diamond Monster I had, had 8mb memory and when a mate at work bought a voodoo 3 i bought his old voodoo2 off him. It had more memory than mine...12 mb

e-Seeker · Nov 10, 2002, 08:11 PM

Mine was a Specturm (the 48K one), then came the SUPER MIGHTY XT (8086), later on I was on the 286. and so on...
My XT had a drive of 20Mb, man, was that a thrill!

Zardon · Nov 10, 2002, 08:35 PM

ok does anyone know what K is talking about with this T1? I wanna know what the hell it is.

fornicatarachnid · Nov 10, 2002, 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zardon
ok does anyone know what K is talking about with this T1? I wanna know what the hell it is.

Sorry, I don't have a clue, maybe Kel could give us some more info on it ???

t1000 · Nov 10, 2002, 09:27 PM

A Sinclair ZX81 Jesus what a pile of shite!
Followed by a Sinclair Spectrum, and then a C64 oh and a BBC Micro

e-Seeker · Nov 10, 2002, 10:27 PM

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Originally posted by t1000
A Sinclair ZX81 Jesus what a pile of shite!

LOL, what'd you expect; at least you could play a decent game of chess on it!

DriveEuro · Nov 10, 2002, 11:20 PM

Well when I was a kid my dad bought an APPLE IIe, I always messed with it, nothing spectacular...cuz I was like 5-8 years old...Then in 1991 he bought a Cryrix 386: 6 MB ram, 40MB HDD, 25mhz (or 15mhz, can't remember) Windows 3.1.1....I messed with this computer for forever....It still runs too

Zardon · Nov 11, 2002, 12:47 AM

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Originally posted by dEykeé
LOL, what'd you expect; at least you could play a decent game of chess on it!

with 1k? man that was good optimised code

Kelsenellenelvian · Nov 11, 2002, 01:04 AM

It was like a game console with a keyboard it only took cartridges for its programs and games.

~~JAV~~ · Nov 11, 2002, 01:25 AM

A T1 ? ... that was a Texas Instruments comp. Circa 1981.

"Perhaps more famous for Speak and Spell the T1-99 was Texas Instruments offering to the home computer market. Features a card slot and of course a speech synth add on."

Texas Instruments was the first to offer handheld scientific calculators ~1975-76. I was working in a keypunch (remember them?) mfg. plant (child labor, he he) when they came out & w/in months we were out of business!

That was the beginning of the 'Silicon Valley'. I swore off comps 'til I got an Apple Macintosh Plus 1mb

in '86-'88 (???). Kids still play billiards on it.

Kelsenellenelvian · Nov 11, 2002, 01:59 AM

Holy sh1t thats it!!!!!!!!!!!! Now that brings back memories man... Thanks for the picture.. What kinda stats did that thing have I didn't know crap about that stuff way back then.

skastel · Nov 11, 2002, 03:13 AM

Ok there was MY first computer and the first computer my family bought. The first fam computer was our trusty 386, it was a 33Mhz if I remember correctly. I was sooo happy when I got it, I remember playing commander Keen!!! good ol id. Then I got wolfenstein, I was astounded. I thought nothing of it at the time, but holy crap that game fit on one floppy!!! Then came doom, only problem was, I couldn't play it past about 1/3 of the screen.
Luckily we upgraded to a 486DX2!!!! Man that was the sh*t. The best part was the impressive 15" monitor!!!

ahh how times have changed!

Anyway MY first computer was my POS e-machine. It was a 500MHz Celeron, 64MB of sdram and a 10GB, and a real buggy WinModem. I put a voodoo3 2000 PCI in it, and eventually stuffed another HDD and a DVD/CD-RW Drive, 6X Max write, but 4x was 33% coasters anyway. Man I remember trying to get linux to run on that thing, not a fun chore, it just didn't want to work. Oh yeah I also used that little-assed 15" monitor with my emachines too.

Chaos · Nov 11, 2002, 05:28 AM

I hate to admit it but mine was a Crapard Bell 486 SX25, 340 meg HD, Win 3.11, with 4 megs of ram. I bought another 4 megs for $300 can you imagine.

Oh ya how could i forget the smokin' 2400 baud modem that was built in

Nov 11, 2002, 08:13 AM

hehehe
Spectrum then Amstrad (green monochrome) then we got serious and got an ATARI 520 followed by a 1040 and finaly a 486 zx 4mb ram.

And first real PC was a Pentium 166 with 16 mb ram and a matrox Mystique 4 mb.

I still have the Atari 1040 and about 500 games on disks.(im sure they are non readable from not being used so long).

But i got actually got sertious about computers in 1990 and have been paying through the nose since then.

Shaith · Nov 11, 2002, 08:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zardon
Well ill go back a little here, my first computer was a C-64, I suppose im not one of the oldest on the board but maybe alot of you younger members dont remember it.

I was only .... erm.... around 12 then I think, and I loved it. I think I actually still have it somewhere in the attic come to think of it with a disk drive. anyone remember the tape drives with the 25 minutes flashing loading screens?

How things have came on, since my Atari ST then amiga, several macs and my old 386s, 486s (I still remember mechwarrior on my 486 DX 100, and man I thought I was king dick back then) "no one in the world could have a pc this powerful!.

Then the first 3dfx card I had when I got tombraider, and being totally blown away.

so what about you guys, any good memories?

lemme think...

Timex Sinclair, TI 99, TI 99/4A, Apple ][e, 8086, 80286, 80386 w/ mathco, 80486 (multiple), P200, P233, P2/233, P2/266, P2/300, P3/450, P3/550, Celeron 733, Athlon 950, Athlon XP 2000+

Nov 10, 2002, 07:42 PM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	What was the first computer you owned? Well ill go back a little here, my first computer was a C-64, I suppose im not one of the oldest on the board but maybe alot of you younger members dont remember it. I was only .... erm.... around 12 then I think, and I loved it. I think I actually still have it somewhere in the attic come to think of it with a disk drive. anyone remember the tape drives with the 25 minutes flashing loading screens? How things have came on, since my Atari ST then amiga, several macs and my old 386s, 486s (I still remember mechwarrior on my 486 DX 100, and man I thought I was king dick back then) "no one in the world could have a pc this powerful!. Then the first 3dfx card I had when I got tombraider, and being totally blown away. so what about you guys, any good memories?

Nov 10, 2002, 07:47 PM	#2
Kelsenellenelvian Master of my own Destiny Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: EverDawn Kingdom,TruEarth Posts: 1,394 Rep Power: 0	I owned a T- I something or other hell I even had to use my own tv cuase it was more like an expanded game system that could word procces and print and do math on.. __________________ [color=#0000ff] Download Windows Post-Install Wizard v4.3.8 and WPI Lite v1.2 Here [/color][color=red][color=blue][/color][/color]

Nov 10, 2002, 07:49 PM	#4
Kelsenellenelvian Master of my own Destiny Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: EverDawn Kingdom,TruEarth Posts: 1,394 Rep Power: 0	Holy sh1t what a system we could put together with $2700 now huh. __________________ [color=#0000ff] Download Windows Post-Install Wizard v4.3.8 and WPI Lite v1.2 Here [/color][color=red][color=blue][/color][/color]

Nov 10, 2002, 07:50 PM	#7
Kelsenellenelvian Master of my own Destiny Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: EverDawn Kingdom,TruEarth Posts: 1,394 Rep Power: 0	It was less than a 386 it was in c-64 era or earlier. MMMM 1980-1981 If I remember right. __________________ [color=#0000ff] Download Windows Post-Install Wizard v4.3.8 and WPI Lite v1.2 Here [/color][color=red][color=blue][/color][/color]

Nov 10, 2002, 07:52 PM	#9
Kelsenellenelvian Master of my own Destiny Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: EverDawn Kingdom,TruEarth Posts: 1,394 Rep Power: 0	Remember 12inch floppies??? __________________ [color=#0000ff] Download Windows Post-Install Wizard v4.3.8 and WPI Lite v1.2 Here [/color][color=red][color=blue][/color][/color]

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~~David~~ Banned Join Date: May 2002 Location: Atlanta Posts: 959 Rep Power: 0	Packard Bell 405 CD had a intel 75mhz in it and 8 meg of ram wow what a pos that was in 1995 cost me $2700 for the thing!

Nov 10, 2002, 07:49 PM	#6
WyreTheWolf Wolfish Bastard Join Date: May 2002 Location: Cave; Ozark Mountains Posts: 2,110 Rep Power: 0	I believe the first computer I ever owned was an atari system. ewwwwww, it is a toss up between that.. .and an old ACE 1000 (that is an apple clone) Too old ... was too long ago to remember. :P

Nov 10, 2002, 07:51 PM	Thread Starter #8
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	damn I remember my rich friend had an atari console. with pong and some other plane game. and when you left one side of the screen you appeared on the other side. boy those where the good ole days ! lol

Nov 10, 2002, 07:53 PM	#11
DALAMAR DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 37 Rep Power: 0	386/25 Mine was a no name 386 that ran @ 25MHz (it had a Turbo button which brought it up to 33MHz). It came with a 125MB HD, 4MB RAM and a Trident video card with 1MB. I bought myself a Hayes Accura 14/4 External Modem. I ran this system with Windows 95 (and surfed the net) all the way til IE 4 became Final...which my system would no longer handle (although the last BETA of IE 4 worked). I also had a Creative SoundBlaster card in it...remember those??..the ones with the MANUAL volume switches on them (on the BACK of your PC).

Nov 10, 2002, 07:58 PM	#12
Kelsenellenelvian Master of my own Destiny Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: EverDawn Kingdom,TruEarth Posts: 1,394 Rep Power: 0	I still have an old c-64 color monitor that I use for my nintendos. __________________ [color=#0000ff] Download Windows Post-Install Wizard v4.3.8 and WPI Lite v1.2 Here [/color][color=red][color=blue][/color][/color]

Nov 10, 2002, 08:01 PM	#13
Renegade[CSR] DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Undisclosed Renegade Location Posts: 396 Rep Power: 0	486 computer when I was 12, with like I dont know how much ram, maybe 32 mb In any case, my fondest memory was playing microsoft golf, and some messed up car racing game. It was a fun system, till I realized that there were faster ones

Nov 10, 2002, 08:11 PM	#17
e-Seeker AKA e-Seeker Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Croatia, Zagreb Posts: 943 Rep Power: 0	Mine was a Specturm (the 48K one), then came the SUPER MIGHTY XT (8086), later on I was on the 286. and so on... My XT had a drive of 20Mb, man, was that a thrill! __________________

Nov 10, 2002, 08:35 PM	Thread Starter #18
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	ok does anyone know what K is talking about with this T1? I wanna know what the hell it is.

Nov 10, 2002, 09:27 PM	#20
t1000 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: uk Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	A Sinclair ZX81 Jesus what a pile of shite! Followed by a Sinclair Spectrum, and then a C64 oh and a BBC Micro

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DriveEuro HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Gurnee Illinois Posts: 4,677 Rep Power: 0	APPLE IIe Well when I was a kid my dad bought an APPLE IIe, I always messed with it, nothing spectacular...cuz I was like 5-8 years old...Then in 1991 he bought a Cryrix 386: 6 MB ram, 40MB HDD, 25mhz (or 15mhz, can't remember) Windows 3.1.1....I messed with this computer for forever....It still runs too __________________ [color=orange]ASUS P4P800 Deluxe [color=black]-[/color] 2.4C --> 3300mhz [color=black]-[/color] Mushkin PC3200 at 220 5-2-2-2 (cpu limited) [color=black]-[/color] BBAti 9800Pro at 430/375 [/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]01[/color] [color=black]3[/color][color=gray]D[/color]M[color=black]a[/color][color=gray]r[/color]k[color=yellow]03[/color] 16001200 12801024

Nov 11, 2002, 01:04 AM	#24
Kelsenellenelvian Master of my own Destiny Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: EverDawn Kingdom,TruEarth Posts: 1,394 Rep Power: 0	It was like a game console with a keyboard it only took cartridges for its programs and games. __________________ [color=#0000ff] Download Windows Post-Install Wizard v4.3.8 and WPI Lite v1.2 Here [/color][color=red][color=blue][/color][/color]

Nov 11, 2002, 01:25 AM	#25
~~JAV~~ Banned Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: California, USA Posts: 283 Rep Power: 0	A T1 ? ... that was a Texas Instruments comp. Circa 1981. "Perhaps more famous for Speak and Spell the T1-99 was Texas Instruments offering to the home computer market. Features a card slot and of course a speech synth add on." Texas Instruments was the first to offer handheld scientific calculators ~1975-76. I was working in a keypunch (remember them?) mfg. plant (child labor, he he) when they came out & w/in months we were out of business! That was the beginning of the 'Silicon Valley'. I swore off comps 'til I got an Apple Macintosh Plus 1mb in '86-'88 (???). Kids still play billiards on it.

Nov 11, 2002, 01:59 AM	#26
Kelsenellenelvian Master of my own Destiny Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: EverDawn Kingdom,TruEarth Posts: 1,394 Rep Power: 0	Holy sh1t thats it!!!!!!!!!!!! Now that brings back memories man... Thanks for the picture.. What kinda stats did that thing have I didn't know crap about that stuff way back then. __________________ [color=#0000ff] Download Windows Post-Install Wizard v4.3.8 and WPI Lite v1.2 Here [/color][color=red][color=blue][/color][/color]

Nov 11, 2002, 03:13 AM	#27
skastel Massive Happiness Join Date: May 2002 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 238 Rep Power: 0	Ok there was MY first computer and the first computer my family bought. The first fam computer was our trusty 386, it was a 33Mhz if I remember correctly. I was sooo happy when I got it, I remember playing commander Keen!!! good ol id. Then I got wolfenstein, I was astounded. I thought nothing of it at the time, but holy crap that game fit on one floppy!!! Then came doom, only problem was, I couldn't play it past about 1/3 of the screen. Luckily we upgraded to a 486DX2!!!! Man that was the sh*t. The best part was the impressive 15" monitor!!! ahh how times have changed! Anyway MY first computer was my POS e-machine. It was a 500MHz Celeron, 64MB of sdram and a 10GB, and a real buggy WinModem. I put a voodoo3 2000 PCI in it, and eventually stuffed another HDD and a DVD/CD-RW Drive, 6X Max write, but 4x was 33% coasters anyway. Man I remember trying to get linux to run on that thing, not a fun chore, it just didn't want to work. Oh yeah I also used that little-assed 15" monitor with my emachines too. __________________ Barton 2800+ @ 1998Mhz (12x166) Radeon 9700 Pro ASUS A7N 1 GB Corsair Low Latency PC3200 (2-2-2-5) SBLive! 5.1 WD 80GB JB Samsung DVD 16x+/12x-/2.4x Dual Layer Lite-On CD-R/RW 48x12x48x

Nov 11, 2002, 05:28 AM	#28
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,268 Rep Power: 167 System Specs	I hate to admit it but mine was a Crapard Bell 486 SX25, 340 meg HD, Win 3.11, with 4 megs of ram. I bought another 4 megs for $300 can you imagine. Oh ya how could i forget the smokin' 2400 baud modem that was built in __________________

Nov 11, 2002, 08:13 AM	#29
GREEKRAGE Guest Posts: n/a	hehehe Spectrum then Amstrad (green monochrome) then we got serious and got an ATARI 520 followed by a 1040 and finaly a 486 zx 4mb ram. And first real PC was a Pentium 166 with 16 mb ram and a matrox Mystique 4 mb. I still have the Atari 1040 and about 500 games on disks.(im sure they are non readable from not being used so long). But i got actually got sertious about computers in 1990 and have been paying through the nose since then.